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thousands of one – hidden treasure – march, 2009

I took this video with a Flip-cam back in Alllston, MA in March, 2009. I just found it on my hard drive and thought others might like it. It’s low-fi, but a lot of fun. (I would pay quite a bit of money for a handy camera that actually had good sound [...]

the invention of printing…

From this fun David Carson TED talk on design.
The invention of printing did away with anonymity, fostered ideas of literary fame and the habit of considering intellectual effort as private property.  — Unknown

Another great example of how technology often changes how we exchange information.  Fun talk, worth watching.
David Carson was also interviewed in Helvetica. It’s [...]

your personal collection of terry tate

Since Terry Tate has this awesome video which is making the rounds:

I thought I would collect some of my favorites from the past:

krugman in december 2007 about the housing crisis

I’m re-posting this from Gen because it’s worth watching. Yes, it’s long, but Paul Krugman is funny and some of his words are creepily prescient.

oh yes. it’s totally time for some kunstler.

In case you don’t know who James Howard Kunstler is, allow me introduce you. Mr. Kunstler is a very interesting man. I’ve been casually reading his stuff for the better part of a decade. And he’s notoriously cranky. Bruce Sterling included something that he wrote in a post on wired that [...]

new theme for the weblog

After years and years of having the default theme for my weblog I finally went out and found a theme.

I’ve been browsing around for a few days now, not really happy with of the ones I came across but I finally found one I really like. It’s the Tarski theme. It’s reasonably configurable, [...]

storytelling like the web would have designed it

Joi Ito has a link to something he built called a flowgram [tiny link]. What’s a flowgram? It lets you tell a story while a series of photos and web pages are shown to demonstrate what you’re talking about. I’m so used to static presentations that when I was first using it [...]

the colbert bump for firefox 3

The entire episode is full of awesome. Go watch it. His feeds are pretty awesome, too. (Thanks go to Jonathan Zittrain who set up the moment.)

firefox 3 stories around the web

Images shamelessly stolen from Gen, Tristan and Melissa.

Firefox 3, Most Emailed news at Yahoo!

Firefox 3 on the home page of BBC!

WebUser home page announcing tomorrow’s chat.

Firefox 3 article on the BBC

Ecrans.fr (part of Liberation)

Schrep and Paul on the Beeb!

Liberation.fr home page, 20080617, with Firefox

Gazeta.pl homepage, 20080617 featuring Firefox 3

Firefox 3 on ZDNet

125 Google News Stories

Firefox [...]